Resources

People in the testing community seem to love sharing their knowledge and experience. I’ve included just a few resources here, kicking off – of course – with my own blog!

Lee’s blog: Rockin’ and Testing All Over The World

Essential reading

• Home of Context-Driven Testing
• James Bach’s blog
• Michael Bolton’s blog

On testing

• Michael Bolton Testing is…
• James Bach & Michael Bolton Testing and Checking refined
• Michael Bolton Testers: Get Out of the Quality Assurance Business
• Ben Kelly Testing – An Activity, Not A Role

Exploratory testing

• James Bach & Michael Bolton Exploratory Testing 3.0
• James Bach Exploratory Testing
• Lee Hawkins Conversations on Exploratory Testing (with Simon Tomes)
• Cem Kaner BBST Foundations lecture on Exploratory Testing
• Michael Bolton Resources on Exploratory Testing
• Testing Times (Anne-Marie Charrett) Exploratory Testing References
• Jon & James Bach Session-Based Test Management
• Huib Schoots Great Resources (Exploratory) Testing
• Ministry of Testing Exploratory Testing resources:
  • Simon Tomes A Really Useful List for Exploratory Testers
  • Simon Tomes Explore Galore! 30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts
  • Simon Tomes Three Digestible Diagrams to Describe Exploratory Testing

Heuristics & oracles

• Michael Bolton’s heuristics blog posts and oracles blog posts
• James Bach’s heuristics blog posts
• Lee Hawkins (guest blog for TestBuddy) Cultivate Your Credibility with Oracles and Heuristics
• Michael Bolton Testing Without A Map
• Michael Bolton FEW HICCUPPS
• Elisabeth Hendrickson Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
• Richard Bradshaw & Sarah Deery Software Testing Heuristics: Mind The Gap!
• Rikard Edgren 77 Test Idea Triggers
• Cem Kaner 300 common software errors (Appendix to the book “Testing Computer Software”)
• TestInsane Mindmaps of test ideas
• Katrina Clokie Heuristics and Oracles

Books

Testing

• Elisabeth Hendrickson Explore It!
• Cem Kaner, James Bach & Bret Pettichord Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach
• Gerald M. Weinberg Perfect Software: And Other Illusions About Testing
• Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory Agile Testing / More Agile Testing

Other fields

• Daniel Kahneman Thinking Fast and Slow
• Gerald M. Weinberg An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
• Laurent Bossavit The Leprechauns of Software Engineering
• Malcolm Gladwell Blink